Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1984. dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's fourth novel, one which introduces Clio Rees, who has given up her practice as a physician to write mysteries. 178 pp. Jacket by Bob Korn. ISBN: 0-38519482X.

New York: Pocket Books, (1993) dj. Hardcover first edition - The fifth Superindent Bone mystery - one "distinguished by complex, intriguing family relationships. When three bodies turn up in one week at popular British author Jake Marsh's charming home in Kent, Bone becomes quickly and deeply involved. The first to die is Marsh's young housekeeper Anna, who apparently fell downstairs after tripping over a skateboard. Then the collapse of a garden wall reveals the corpse of Jake's first wife, Kingsley, who was missing for 14 years; the household is still reeling when Marsh's second wife, Fenny, is murdered in a particularly grisly manner." (Reed) These authors who also known for their historical mysteries written under the pseudonym of Elizabeth Eyre. 247 pp. ISBN: 0-671735306.

South Lake Tahoe, California: Thriller Press, (2017.). First edition - Thriller in this award-winning series ffeaturing Owen McKenna and his Great Dane Spot. The first body is found on Lake Tahoe's only island; McKenna discovers that she used a scam charity to steal millions. More bodies follow and it appears that the victims are all payback targets of a vigilante killer. ll. . . "The book offers a smart, intriguing mystery, and the series gives a strong sense of the Tahoe area" (Kirkus Reviews) 351 pp. ISBN: 978-1931296250.

New York: The Viking Press, (2002) dj. Hardcover first edition - Sixteenth in the Homer Kelly mystery series set in Cambridge which is hosting an Escher exhibit. Illustrated with photographs and one drawing by the author. 242 pp. ISBN: 0-670-030678.

New York: Random House, (2006) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - His second book, both literary history - regarding the death of Edgar Allan Poe - and an absorbing mystery. SIGNED on the title page. Historical note. 367 pp. ISBN: 1400061032.

New York: Morrow (imprint of Harper Collins), (2013) dj. Hardcover first edition - The first book in The Order of the Sanguines series. "In his first-ever collaboration, bestselling author James Rollins combines his skill for cutting-edge science and historical mystery with award-winning novelist Rebecca Cantrell's talent for haunting suspense and sensual atmosphere in a gothic tale about an ancient order and the hunt for a miraculous book known only as.'The Blood Gospel'." 479 pp. ISBN: 978-0061991042.

New York: Doubleday, (1988) dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's fourth mystery featuring true crime author Patience Campbell McKenna, who has agreed to do a book tour - one which turns deadly. Many of Papazoglou's crime novels were written under the Jane Haddam pseudonym. 181 pp. ISBN: 0-385246129.

New York: Scribner, (1997) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The fifth novel featuring Superintendent Duncan Kincaid of Scotland Yard - in this, his ex-wife, a feminist biographer, is researching the life of a World War I era poet, who supposedly committed suicide but she becomes convinced that the poet did not take her own life and asks Kincaid's help. INSCRIBED on the title page and dated in the year of publication. 350 pp. ISBN: 0-684847205.

Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1973. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The author's first novel. A dead man's widow believes her husband was murdered but the only one who believes her is Conan Flagg, the half Irish, half Native American owner of the local bookstore, a licensed private investigator (as well as former intelligence author). He notices some odd bookstore customers, a fleet of Russian trawlers hanging out near the harbor, and the antics of a very curious cat called Meg. SIGNED on the front endpapers by Wren with Martha Kay Renfroe in parentheses underneath, and with a pawprint stamp from the cat Tai (Meg.) 205 pp. ISBN: 0-385064780.

London: Time Warner, (2005). SIGNED hardcover first edition - The first novel featuring Inspector Henrietta Mallin - when a publisher is killed in a house fire, the members of a writer's circle are determined to track down the killer. SIGNED on the title page with the words "Welcome to my circle" and dated in the year of publication. 358 pp. ISBN: 0-316729450.

New York: Harper & Row, (1964) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Langton's quite scarce first mystery set in Concord, Massachusetts and introducing scholarly detective Homer Kelly. Not only does he meet Mary, his future wife, a six foot tall librarian working on a book about the women of Transcendentalism, but he becomes involved in a murder which occurred right after the Patriot's Day Parade. Illustrated with drawings by the author. An interesting association copy INSCRIBED by Langton on the title page to her cousin with the note "of a generation I'm proud to pretend to belong to." Dust jacket praise from Eudora Welty. 248 pp. Map endpapers.

New York: St. Martin's Press, (1990) dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's third novel, and the second in the mystery series featuring publishers and amateur sleuths Ben and Carrie Porter. They take a working vacation to a recently deceased author's Riviera home, hoping to get the rights to his last novel, only to find that he has set a final challenge for his heirs. 262 pp. ISBN: 0-312050062.

Naperville, IL: Poisoned Pen Press, (2024). First edition - A stand-alone novel by this prolific - and award-winning - Sri Lankan-born Australia author, one which even manages to incorporate a Q-Anon type thread about something called The Shield and the revolutionary plans of its leader, Primus. "Australian college student Theodosia Benton has abruptly left her university in Sydney and moved to the United States with the intention of becoming a writer, showing up unannounced on the doorstep of her older brother, Gus, in Lawrence, Kansas. . When she meets writer Dan Murdoch at a coffee shop, Theo quickly manages to become his friend and avid writing student. Then Dan is murdered and Theo is determined to find his killer." (Kirkus) Reading group guide. 376 pp.

New York: Harper Collins, (2017) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A "thriller which interweaves a classic whodunit worthy of Agatha Christie with an equally ingenious modern-day mystery that transforms the reader into the detective." One of the most effective and enjoyable novel within a novel books which I have read. Introduces editor Susan Ryeland who turns detective when a manuscript is missing the final chapters and its author has apparently committed suicide. Horowitz, a screenwriter for the television series Midsommer Murders, freely name drops. This novel was itself the basis for an innovative and excellent television series. A 'specially bound copy' SIGNED by the author on a preliminary page. Recommended. 236 pp. ISBN: 978-0062645227.

New York: Harper Collins, (2017) dj. Hardcover first edition - A "thriller which interweaves a classic whodunit worthy of Agatha Christie with an equally ingenious modern-day mystery that transforms the reader into the detective." One of the most effective and enjoyable novel within a novel books which I have read. Introduces editor Susan Ryeland who turns detective when a manuscript is missing the final chapters and its author has apparently committed suicide. Horowitz, a screenwriter for the television series Midsommer Murders, freely name drops. This novel was itself the basis for an innovative and excellent television series. Recommended. 236 pp. ISBN: 978-0062645227.

London: The Crime Club by Collins, (1987) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The fifth Inspector Perry Trethowan mystery, set at a conference of romance novelists in Norway - a "hilarious send-up of the world of romantic fiction." SIGNED by the author on the title page. 183 pp. ISBN: 0-002321165.

New York: Obsidian / New American Library - NAL, (2016). SIGNED hardcover first edition - A novel in this series featuring San Francisco book restoration expert Brooklyn Wainwright SIGNED on the title page. 309 pp. ISBN: 978-0451477705.

New York: St Martin's Minotaur, (2011). The third in this series featuring Charlie Howard, part-time crime writer, part-time thief, who lifts an illusionist's room key, cracks a safe but discovers a body in the bathtub. 293 pp. ISBN: 978-0312580865.

New York: Berkley, (2021). SIGNED hardcover first edition - The fifthteenth novel in this series featuring San Francisco book restoration expert Brooklyn Wainwright, and her husband ex-MI6 agent, and now security expert, Derek Stone. The book referred to in the title is a signed first edition of Daphne du Maurier's 'Rebecca' and when it is sent to Stone, it leads to danger and murder. Set in the California wine country and in Scotland. SIGNED on the title page. 367 pp plus recipes. ISBN: 0-593201434.

New York: Crooked Lane Books, (2018). First edition - The second book in this series set in Virginia and featuring library director Amy Webber. "October in Taylorsford, Virginia means its leaf peeping season, with bright colorful foliage and a delightful fresh crew of tourists attending the annual Heritage Festival which celebrates local history and arts and crafts. Library director Amy Webber, though, is slightly dreading having to spend two days running a yard sale fundraiser for her library. But during these preparations, when she and her assistant Sunny stumble across a dead body, Amy finds a real reason to be worried." 326 pp.

London: Hodder & Stoughton, (2005.) dj. The first book in a new series featuring Jack Spratt, investigator, family man, and head of the nursery crime division. 398 pp. plus 3 "ads.". ISBN: 0-340835680.

New York: Berkley, (2010). First David Loogan novel. An engrossing bibliomystery, set in Ann Arbor, Michigan . 338 pp.

New York: Random House, (2009) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - His third novel, set in 1870, both literary history - regarding Charles Dicken's final unfinished novel - and an absorbing mystery. SIGNED on the title page. Historical note. 383 pp. ISBN: 978-1400066568.

London: The Crime Club by Collins, (1983) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - An Inspector Perry Trethowan mystery, involving a previously unknown Bronte manuscript, a crazy collector, a smooth millionaire, a shifty evangelist and lots of violence. SIGNED by the author on the front free end paper. 182 pp. ISBN: 0-002314894.

New York: Riverhead Books, (2015) dj. Hardcover first edition - An historical thriller set in 1943 in which British Naval Intelligence officer Ian Fleming attempts to foil a Nazi plot to assassinate Roosevelt, Churchill, and Stalin, as they meet in Tehran to finalize plans for D-Day. 345 pp. ISBN: 978-1594631795.

New York: Shaye Areheart Books / Crown, (2006) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The author's first novel (3rd book) "Angel Robinson loves books, loves reading, but the Bay Area bookstore where she works is squeezed out of business, she has to find a new job. She lucks into a position as the assistant to the world-renowned literary agent Lucy Fiamma, but soon learns that working for Lucy is no picnic. But Angel soon becomes indispensible to the agency and develops a keen understanding of big projects and the writers who create them. What she doesnt realize is just how far one of them will go to get published." SIGNED on the title page. 328 pp. ISBN: 978-0307346049.